Greenwich Village, Manhattan Borough, New York County, New York, NY, 10011 New York County Post Office: New York Zip: 10003, 10011, 10012, 10014 Photo: Washington Square Park, Manhattan, New York City, photographed by Matthew Jesuele, 2006, en.wikipedia.org, accessed February, 2011. Greenwich Village as Observed in 1939 [1] A nation, coming into its own artistically after an era of ruthless industrial expansion, of materialism and strait-laced conventionality, seized upon Greenwich Village as a symbol of revolt in the ferment of postwar years. The "Village" was the center of the American Renaissance or of artiness, of political progress or of long-haired radical men and short-haired radical women, of sex freedom or of sex license — dependent upon the point of view. Greenwich Village, actually, is a cross section of American urban life.

Here are old families in their gracious mansions; bankers and clerks in tall apartment buildings; and a foreign-born population of some twenty-five thousand, largely Irish and Italian, in tenements. If in 1939 there were more serious artists and writers, more "bohemians" in renovated old houses, more colorful tea rooms and wild night clubs than in other American centers, the number each year was lessening. In the years just preceding and following the World War the political, artistic, and literary rebels who flocked to the Village gave it a character unique in this country. The literary history of Greenwich Village, however, begins much earlier. Here Tom Paine spent the last years of his life. Poe lived, drank, and worked at several Village addresses. Walt Whitman lived in the vicinity, Henry James was born near Washington Square (he named one of his books for the square), and Mark Twain adopted the neighborhood for his city home. In 1896 John Masefield, English poet laureate, made his living here by scrubbing the floors of a saloon. But the story of Greenwich Village is the rounded story of an old and lively American community, at once typical and individual.

Here exploring parties were entertained by the natives of the hamlet of Sapokanican; and, in return, with the earliest settlement of lower Manhattan, the Dutch drove the Indians from this neighborhood. In 1633, while most of the island north of Wall Street was still a wilderness, Governor Van Twiller was cultivating here a large tobacco plantation — Bossen Bouwerie (Farm in the Woods) — and built his home at the foot of the present Charlton Street. During the fall of 1679, the Labadist missionaries, Danckaerts and Sluyter, visited what had grown to be a small village, where they drank "some good beer." In 1740, Sir Peter Warren, vice admiral of the British Navy and at that time commander of the fleet in New York, chose the locality for his home. The Village grew throughout the Colonial period as a community of the wealthy. Here was the great Brevoort estate, sold in 1762 to one John Smith, a large slaveholder; the Bleecker farm; and the mansions of the Bayards, the Jauncys, and the De Lanceys.

A popular drive for New York's fashionable reached the Village by way of Greenwich Street, which then ran along the river; when wet weather rendered this route impassable, the drive was made along the Bowery to an extension of what is now Greenwich Avenue, with a monument erected to General James Wolfe, hero of the French and Indian War, as its goal. A spurt was given to the growth of the community following the Revolution, particularly in the neighborhood of the State prison, erected at the foot of Tenth Street; that institution, like the Bedlam Madhouse of Elizabethan days, was considered a residential attraction. An epidemic of smallpox in 1739 in the Battery region gave impetus to the first hasty migration of the well-to-do to the healthier climate of the Village; scourges of yellow fever in 1797, 1799, 1803, and 1805 resulted in similar stampedes northward in crowded stages, and goods-piled carriages and pushcarts. Some drifted south again when conditions became normal, but others remained in their new homes.

The greatest of all the yellow fever plagues, in 1822, brought such a rush of refugees that the Brooklyn ferry changed its course from New York to a point opposite the Village. Makeshift dwellings and business houses were thrown up almost overnight; lanes and cowpaths winding haphazardly through the neighborhood became busy streets. One of these lanes, during the 1822 epidemic, quartered temporarily the counting houses of Wall Street, and still bears the name Bank Street. From 1825 to 1850, the population of Greenwich Village quadrupled, its inhabitants being largely of middle-class and well-to-do American stock. But for the next half-century, its growth, although steady, was slower than that of New York as a whole. While the city moved steadily northward, along Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and other great arteries, the Village, with its narrow erratic streets, remained a quiet backwater. As late as 1875, since only 32 per cent of its population was foreign-born — unusual for Manhattan — the section was known as the "American Ward." An area so central, however, could not escape the ever encroaching poorer classes.

Already numbers of Irish immigrants had moved into the neighborhood, and later a Negro invasion, starting at the southeastern edge of the Village and moving north to Washington Square itself, heralded the first major change in the district. Property values decreased. Save for the families in the aristocratic stronghold of Washington Square and north of it, and a few tenacious ones scattered throughout the southwest, the older and wealthier inhabitants joined the continual migration uptown. Then, in the 1890's, came another invasion of Irish lower in the economic scale than the compatriots who preceded them. The Italians — displacing the Negroes who left their last stronghold in Gay Street in the early 1920's — moved up from the south in even greater numbers than the Irish, meeting them in the neighborhood of Sheridan Square. By 1910, the transformation of Greenwich Village had been completed. The American Ward had become Ward 9, a foreign ward, leading its life of pushcart, cafe, fiesta, and bar, its land values as cheap as in nearly any settled section of the city, its people faithful followers of the Roman Catholic Church and of Tammany.

A second change of a different nature began in Greenwich Village shortly before 1910. It had a slow, quiet beginning, scarcely perceptible to the neighborhood itself; yet it was to make that dingy backwater celebrated wherever the English language is spoken. At that period materialism had assumed an unprecedented importance in American life. Ambition not directed toward the goal of a large bank account was almost alien to thought and education, and, like most things alien, was regarded with distrust and scorn. Above all was this attitude adopted toward the struggling artist seeking satisfaction from completion of a poem or picture. A natural result was the withdrawal of the rebel artist into protective groups. Many of these groups gravitated to the larger cities — Kansas City to St. Louis , St. Louis to Chicago — and finally, from all over the country to the metropolis. In Greenwich Village the earliest rebels found comparative quiet, winding streets, houses with a flavor of the Old World—and cheap rents. The local people existed largely to be traded with; otherwise they were passed unnoticed as the Villager moved from group meeting to group meeting.

These meetings — after a day of hard work or of grandiose planning — at first took place in their homes, in a back room in Washington Square South, in an attic on West Fourth Street. The room was often sparsely furnished, partly for lack of funds to buy furniture, partly as a revolt from over-furnished, late-Victorian backgrounds. Often candles replaced electricity. A few pictures of their own or of their friends' painting and a batik hung on the walls. They talked of their work, of the arts, or of sex and Freud; and were secretly thrilled at doing so in mixed company. They discussed Socialism, the I.W.W., woman's suffrage, and the philistinism of the folks back home. The conversation ranged from brilliant to silly, but always, instinctively or consciously, it was unconventional. And throughout, they drank endless glasses of tea — for these were the days before Prohibition and bath-tub gin. As their numbers grew, they found outside meeting places of their own, places more esoteric than the Italian restaurants they first frequented, such as Bertolloti's on West Third Street, Renganeschi's on West Tenth Street, Gallup's on Greenwich Avenue.

The first of these new meeting places was Polly Holliday's, on the north side of Fourth Street, between MacDougal Street and Sixth Avenue. Here commercialism, even on the part of the proprietress, scarcely existed. Meals were written on the cuff, never to be erased; but all "true" Villagers were welcome so long as they kept the conversation flowing well into the night. The Mad Hatter was another such eating place; with Polly's it entertained many who were later to become noted in art, science, and politics. There was the Samovar, Sam Swartz's TNT, the Purple Pup, the Pirate's Den, and Romany Marie's, the last-named still in existence. For drinks, at the corner of Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue, there was the Golden Swan, popularly known as the "Hell Hole," frequented by Villagers and toughs alike, and on Greenwich Avenue, Luke O'Connor's bar, where John Masefield worked.

Finally, as a degree of affluence came to many of the Villagers, the cafes of the Brevoort and Lafayette — hotels continental in flavor and esteemed by cosmopolitans — were invaded, for drinks, cards, chess, and for discussion. Always the line between groups was sharply drawn; there were as yet no big business neighbors, no white-collar workers, no respectable well-to-do drawn here by the love or the glamor of the arts. There were only the Villager and Ward Niner, and the former walked from home to Polly's and from Polly's to the Brevoort through a little world of his own. In the theater, from modest beginnings, the Villagers all but revolutionized the American stage. A group, loosely organized at first, gave performances in a converted stable at 133 MacDougal Street. Its members, sometimes actors, sometimes playwrights, called themselves the Provincetown Players, after their so-titled wharf theater in Cape Cod's Provincetown, and included such people as George Cram Cook and his wife, Susan Glaspell, Eugene O'Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, her sister, Norma, and Robert Edmond Jones.

And if this group gave the country modern playwrights, the group that preceded it for a short while at the same address — the Washington Square Players — with Helen Westley, Philip Moeller, Lawrence Langner and others gave America an organization, which, moving uptown as the Theater Guild, taught the incredulous Broadway producers that living art could bring box-office receipts. A later venture, Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory, in the old Theatre Francais, 105 West Fourteenth Street, carried on the tradition of a "different" theater until 1933, when it gave way to the Theater Union, which produced plays with a pronounced social theme. Literature, in group form, found expression in a number of papers and magazines of varying worth. They ranged from purely literary to primarily political, and lasted from one issue to several years. Two of them, the Seven Arts and the Masses, were forced to discontinue publication because of their opposition to the World War. The former, edited by Louis Untermeyer and James Oppenheim, with a number of now noted contributors, was revolutionary in content.

The Masses was radical politically; following its suppression in 1918, Max Eastman, Art Young, John Reed, and Floyd Dell, were placed on trial, charged with a conspiracy to obstruct recruiting and prevent enlistment. The trial was an event of nation-wide interest, the tension of which on the climactic day was disturbed only by the snoring of the defendant Young. The Masses reappeared in 1919 as the Liberator, and later, after another lapse, as the present New Masses. First, however, among organized groups expressing the revolt of the Villagers was the "A" Club, at One Fifth Avenue, with the writer, Mary Heaton Vorse, Rose O'Neill, creator of the Kewpies, and Frances Perkins, later Secretary of Labor under Franklin D. Roosevelt, among its leaders — a group devoted to the advancement of women's suffrage and social reforms. The Liberal Club, with a similar membership, followed, moving from East Seventeenth Street to 133 MacDougal Street, at which address it gave houseroom and financial aid to the Washington Square Players and, later, to the Provincetown Players.

The liberals were beginning to exert an influence not only on New York but on American thinking, when the entrance of the United States into the World War altered radically the intellectual aspects of the Village. Repression of liberal and radical activities during and for several years following the war was, of course, the major cause of the change. Some Villagers had been ardent supporters of the war; the nebulous liberalism and radicalism of many others were dissipated. Meanwhile, however, fame had come to some of these early rebels, success to many others, maturity to all. Many of the successful moved, with their families, to Connecticut , Westchester County , and farther afield; the unsuccessful trekked back home to take up their old life where they had left off a decade earlier. A nucleus remained to greet the postwar rebels attracted to a now celebrated Bohemia. By 1939 there were more Greenwich Villagers than in the days preceding the war, but these young people were leading a life not greatly dissimilar to that of many of their contemporaries throughout the country.

The Village tearooms and night clubs, for the most part no longer the haunts of the Bohemian, were patronized largely by out-of-town tourists and sensation seekers from outlying boroughs. Large apartment buildings and rents were rising as the well-to-do and white-collar workers, attracted by the central location, by vastly improved transportation facilities, and, perhaps, by the glamor associated with the address, moved in. And as the foreigner had for two decades retreated before the advance of the Villager, so already the Villager had begun to retreat to outlying districts before the wealthier newcomer. The passionate individualism of the Village was giving way to community singing and similar neighborhood activities. Bobby Edwards' erratic, "villagy" Quill was replaced by the highly successful commercial Villager, which exalted the conventional, small-town aspects of the district. If such institutions as the semi-annual open-air art show in Washington Square — where three-quarters of the exhibitors have been non-Villagers — still exist, they are inspired by the legend rather than by the actuality of the community.

Much of the old aspect, and many of the old people, such as Theodore Dreiser and Vilhjalmur Stefansson, returned, however. Papa Strunsky still rails at the tenant in arrears in his West Third Street building — and at times lets the promising writer or painter stay on, the bill unpaid. Literary teas (with tea scarcely in evidence) are still popular. The easy unconventionality, the charming old houses, comfortable as an old shoe, still invite the Villager, emerging from the subway after a visit to more formal neighborhoods, to drag off his or her hat and swing along home. Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration, New York City Guide, American Guide Series, The Guilds' Committee or Federal Writers' Publications, Inc., Random House Publishers, New York, 1939. Greenwich Village Map Street Names Greenwich Village | The Official Guide to New York City Tours Authentic Italian Greenwich Village Food Tour and Tastings Delve into the history and culture of one of New York City’s most legendary neighborhoods — Greenwich Village — on a guided, 3-hour, culinary walking tour. Discover the food that has defined 'the Village' for generations.

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Greenwich Village, however, was known in the late 19th to mid 20th centuries as an artists' haven, the bohemian capital, and the East Coast birthplace of the Beat movement. What provided the initial attractive character of the community eventually contributed to its gentrification and commercialization. The name of the village is Anglicized from the Dutch name Groenwijck, meaning "Green District", into its near homonym Greenwich, a borough of London. The neighborhood is bordered by Broadway to the East, the Hudson River to the West, Houston Street to the South, and 14th Street to the North.[citation needed] The neighborhoods surrounding it are the East Village and NoHo to the East, SoHo to the south, and Chelsea to the North. The East Village was formerly considered part of the Lower East Side and never associated with Greenwich Village. The West Village is the area of Greenwich Village west of 7th Avenue, though realtors claim the dividing line is farther east at 6th Avenue. The Far West Village is a sub-neighborhood from the Hudson River to Hudson Street.

The neighborhood is located in New York's 8th congressional district, New York's 25th State Senate district, New York's 66th State Assembly district, and New York City Council's 3rd district. Manhattan - Boroughs of the Dead MANHATTAN Greenwich Village, West Village & Lower Manhattan THE ULTIMATE GREENWICH VILLAGE GHOST TOUR Meeting Point: In front of St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, 131 East 10th Street. This tour is approximately 2 hours in duration and one mile in length. Runs rain or shine, except in cases of severely inclement weather. Tour ends near Washington Square Park. Tour Description: All killer, no filler. This 2-hour tour presents the very best true ghost stories from the East Village and Greenwich Village. All stories on this carefully researched route have been painstakingly hand-picked by our expert guides to bring you only the most fascinating and consistently verified ghost stories in these historic neighborhoods. Delve into the history and theory behind ghosts and hauntings as we explore the true stories themselves and examine the parapsychological principles behind the reported phenomena.

Untangle the complex interplay between human emotion and urban social forces that combine to create enduring local legends. Bring your skepticism, morbid fascinations, and love of NYC history — and your respect for the unseen world that rests at the edge of our perceived reality. Recommended for those who want only the best and are willing to walk for it. Photo courtesy of the Merchant’s House Museum. Price: $25 in advance, $30 at the door Meeting Point: Outside of Washington Mews, on University Place (between Washington Square North and East 8th Street). This tour is approximately 2 hours in duration and one mile in length. Runs rain or shine, except in cases of severely inclement weather. Tour ends approximately near W 4th Street and 7th Avenue South Tour Description: A companion to our popular “Ultimate Greenwich Village Ghost Tour,” this tour begins in Washington Square and continues westward through the labyrinthine streets of the West Village. Forgotten histories and urban lore abound on this haunting, mysterious, and wonderfully weird stroll through one of the most charmingly strange neighborhoods in the city. Discover the mystical symbolism hidden in everyday architecture and the subterranean histories lurking below New York City.

Hear tales of phantoms, occultists, restless spirits, body snatchers, and spectral founding fathers including Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr! Find out how horror writers from Poe to Lovecraft were inspired by Greenwich Village, and more! For anyone interested in ghosts and horror, mysticism and the occult, and the weird side of NYC history, this tour is a must. Price: $25 in advance, $30 at the door WEIRD TALES OF THE WEST VILLAGE CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS Meeting Point: 1 Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004, in front of the National Museum of the American Indian (Tour ends by City Hall) This tour is approximately 2 hours in duration and one mile in length. Runs rain or shine, except in cases of severely inclement weather. Tour Description: You’ll learn all about the ghastly, weird, often uncanny, and shockingly dark history of Lower Manhattan as this macabre walking tour wends its way through the oldest parts of New York City. See haunted taverns and gloomy graveyards. Hear surprisingly horrific stories of colonial and early New York, with a few ghostly tales mixed in for good measure.

The perfect tour for history lovers and fans of the paranormal and all things creepy and strange. $25 in advance, $30 at the door CHOOSE YOUR BOROUGH: Greenwich Village travel guide - Wikitravel 10 Respect The arch in Washington Square Park Greenwich Village (often simply referred to as "the Village") is a well-known, largely residential district in Manhattan , one of the boroughs of New York . The neighborhood is roughly bounded by Broadway on the east, the Hudson River on the west, Houston Street on the south, and 14th St on the north. The neighborhoods surrounding it are the East Village to the east, SoHo to the south, and Chelsea to the north. Note that the "East Village" was not historically part of Greenwich Village and is still considered by many New Yorkers to be part of the Lower East Side, but the term "West Village" is synonymous with Greenwich Village, or at least that part of the neighborhood that is west of 6th Avenue or so. In the 19th century, the Greenwich Village district was better known as Washington Square. Washington Square Park remains a neighborhood landmark, but the terms "The Village," "Greenwich Village," and "West Village" are practically interchangeable.

Understand[ edit ] Greenwich Village was once a large industrial park; later, it was colonized by radicals, bohemians, beatniks, artists, and literary greats squatting in abandoned factories. High rents exclude most of their ilk today (their countercultural counterparts are NYU students with parental support) but the Village (as it is known) still has its charm. Greenwich Village, home to a vibrant artistic and literary community in the 1950s, occupies the space between Houston St and 14th St. The central portion surrounds Washington Square Park and includes NYU's large campus and a thriving B&T (bridge & tunnel - a pejorative term) nightlife scene on MacDougal St. West of University Place are many historic and attractive brownstones and some of the city's best restaurants and bars. The area's traditional avant garde reputation - it was a major center of the gay rights movement in the 1970s, for example - has somewhat faded as yuppies and movie stars move in. Many people worldwide who have never been to the Village are familiar with the Village Voice newspaper [1] , which is actually published in the East Village.

Greenwich Village is also the main setting for the TV series Friends as Monica's apartment has a Grove St address, and there are numerous references to nearby areas such as Bleecker St and Soho (although the series was actually filmed in the Warner Brother studios in Los Angeles ). By subway[ edit ] Greenwich Village is served by many subway lines: The 1, 2, and 3 lines run under 7th Avenue, with the 1 stopping at Christopher St station (next to the picturesque Sheridan Sq) and all three stopping at 14th Street (a passageway allows free transfer to 14th St/6th Ave station). The A, B, C, D, E, F, and M lines stop in the middle of the Village at the W 4th St station (at the intersection of W 4th St and 6th Ave), with the A, C, and E serving 14th St and 8th Ave station and the F and M lines serving 14th St and 6th Ave station (a passageway at 14th St/6th Ave allows free transfer to 14th St/7th Ave station).

The R line runs under Broadway, along with the N at night and on weekends, serving the 8th St NYU and Union Square stations on the edge of the neighborhood. The L line runs under 14th St, stopping at the 14th St/6th Ave, 14th St/8th Ave, and Union Square stations. The 4, 5, 6, and Q lines also serve Union Square. By PATH[ edit ] PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) stops at Christopher St between Hudson and Greenwich Sts and at both 9th St and 14th St at 6th Ave. The PATH train, a subway-style transit system, is convenient and inexpensive for going to points on 6th Ave up to 33 St (one block east of Penn Station) and to Hoboken and Journal Square in New Jersey. One can transfer from Journal Square to the PATH line that terminates at Newark - Penn Station (not to be confused with New York's Penn Station), and get from there to Newark Airport by local Newark bus.

By bus[ edit ] The double-decker tour buses whisk their way up 6th Ave, but why not take an MTA bus , get off, and do your own tour? In this neighborhood, the following uptown/downtown buses operate: The M20 goes uptown on Hudson St and 8th Ave, downtown on 7th Ave The M5 and M6 go uptown on 6th Ave. The M6 goes downtown on Broadway, the M5 on Fifth Ave to 8th St, then east on 8th and downtown on Broadway to its terminus on Houston St. The M3 goes uptown on University Pl and downtown on Fifth Ave The M2 goes uptown on 4th Ave and downtown on Fifth Ave The M11 goes uptown on Greenwich St. and downtown on Hudson St to and from Abingdon Sq. There is also the M7, which has its downtown terminus on 14th St and Broadway, just south of Union Sq. There are also crosstown buses: The M14 goes across 14th St. The M8 goes west on 9th and Christopher Sts, east on 10th and 8th Sts.

The M14 is by far the most frequent at all hours. There is also a crosstown bus on Houston St, the M21, but it runs fairly infrequently and tends to get backed up in traffic, so it is not recommended if there is a good alternative. The M21 does not run between approximately midnight and 6AM. See the MTA website [2] for more information. On foot[ edit ] A tree-lined street in Greenwich Village If you are close enough to walk to the Village, do it. Walking is the best way to experience the character of neighborhoods in Manhattan and the contrast and continuity between them. Walking tours are available at Greenwich Village Walking Tours [3] By bicycle[ edit ] The park along the Hudson River has a popular bike path. Many people also ride along city streets in this neighborhood, many of which are pretty quiet side streets. See[ edit ][ add listing ] New York University (NYU), [4] . The main campus for NYU is found in Greenwich Village, centered around Washington Square Park. edit Washington Square Park. The park and the famous arch is located in the heart of the Village.

Though located in the middle of an affluent neighborhood, the park attracts a hodgepodge of people. edit Grove Court, Grove St (just off Hudson Street). The setting for O'Henry's famous short story, The Last Leaf. edit Do[ edit ][ add listing ] Cherry Lane Theater Greenwich Village has developed as a home for a significant number of off-Broadway theater companies and lots of music venues. Cherry Lane Theater, 38 Commerce St, ☎ +1-212-989-2020, [5] . edit Bitter End, 147 Bleeker St, ☎ +1-212-673-7030, [6] . Historic music club ("New York's Oldest Rock Club") opened in 1961 with legendary 60's acts before they were legendary. Some of the acts to play here include Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Jim Croce, David Crosby, Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie...you get the idea. Still has several live acts each night for little or no cover charge. Extremely intimate bar atmosphere.

edit Village Vanguard, 178 7th Ave S (just S of 11th St), ☎ +1-212-255-4037, [7] . Presents a great lineup of jazz performers in a quiet room (except for the music) that has good acoustics. edit Blue Note, 131 W 3rd St (btwn Sixth Ave and Macdougal St), ☎ +1-212-475-8592, [8] . Also has a lineup of famous jazz and blues performers. It feels a little more like a bar (with people talking during the show) and a little less like a venue that's only about the music. edit Smalls Jazz Club, 183 W 10 St (btwn W 4th St and 7th Ave), ☎ +1-212-675-7369, [9] . A great place to hear excellent jazz at low prices.

edit Terra Blues, 149 Bleecker St (btwn Thompson St and LaGuardia Pl), ☎ +1-212-777-7776, [10] . Su-Th 6:30PM-2:30AM, F 6:30PM-3:30AM, Sa 6PM-3:30AM. Terra Blues is a modern-day Blues saloon in the heart of Greenwich Village. It's arched ceilings have carried the sounds of the best Blues performers from all around New York and the country. Each night begins at 7pm with an acoustic set, and is followed by a full electric band at 10pm. Having served up great music and good spirits for over 20 years, Terra Blues is a Greenwich Village fixture that will be here for 20 more. $10-20. edit Buy[ edit ][ add listing ] There are several stores where only the phonograph records of oldies are sold, and neither CDs nor tapes. One of them is located on Carmine St.

Generation Records, 210 Thompson St, ☎ +1-212-254-1100, [11] . Su-Th 11AM-10PM, F Sa 11AM-11PM. Best place in the city to buy hardcore, metal, industrial, punk, and alternative records. edit Three Lives & Company- 154 W 10th St (at Waverly). A local independent bookstore, this microscopic yet utterly delightful place is the essence of Greenwich Village, with an extremely knowledgeable and passionate staff. Eat[ edit ][ add listing ] Groceries and eateries can be found on almost every street of The Village You'll find hundreds of restaurants and sidewalk cafés of virtually every culture. All-American, Mexican, Indian, Italian, Polish, Ethiopian, Pakistani, Spanish, Kenyan, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese...the list goes on... At many spots you'll find affordable eats with the chance to enjoy your meal on the sidewalk. There are also some well-known upscale restaurants in the neighborhood. Arturos, 106 W Houston St (at Houston and Thompson), ☎ +1-212-677-3820.

Su 3PM-midnight, M-Th 4PM-1AM, F Sa 4PM-2AM. A popular local pizza restaurant with an "old-time" theme, serving coal oven pizza with a lightly charred, crispy crust. There is often live jazz. edit Tea and Sympathy, 108 Greenwich Ave, ☎ +1-212-989-9735, [12] . M-F 11:30AM-10:30PM, Sa Su 9:30AM-10:30PM. Describes itself as "a quintessential corner of England in the heart of Greenwhich Village", typically English meals are available here (perfect for the Anglophile or homesick Brit!) edit Babbo, 110 Waverly Pl (btwn Washington Sq W and Sixth Ave), ☎ +1-212-777-0303, [13] . The most famous of Chef Mario Batali's restaurants, and especially well-known for its pasta tasting menu.

Reserve a month in advance or stand on line before opening time (5:30PM on weekdays and 5PM on Su) to try to get a seat at the bar or one of the tables kept open for walk-ins. Babbo is one of the hardest restaurants to get a reservation at in New York, which should indicate something about its popularity. Do not expect a cheap meal, but this is one you don't have to dress up for. edit Blue Hill, 75 Washington Pl (btwn Washington Sq W and Sixth Ave), ☎ +1-212-539-1776, [14] . An upscale American restaurant known for its fresh ingredients and subtlety. Call ahead for reservations. edit Otto, 1 Fifth Ave (cnr of 8th St), ☎ +1-212-995-9559, [15] . The pizzeria in the Batali chain. Prices are much cheaper here than at Babbo, but the entire concept of the restaurant is different, so take it for what it is. The antipasti and gelati as well as the pizza are well thought of.

edit Red Bamboo, 140 W 4th St (1 block SW of Washington Sq Pk), ☎ +1-212-260-7049, [16] . Excellent vegetarian soul food, organic wines. edit Lupa Osteria Romana, 170 Thompson St (btwn Wt Houston and Bleecker Sts), ☎ +1-212-982-5089, [17] . Noon-Midnight daily. This is yet another restaurant associated with Mario Batali, but the Executive Chef is Steve Connaughton. This is a very good, relatively informal, mid-priced eatery, with a good and fair-priced wine list. Every fan has their own favorite dishes. First-timers may want to share several smaller dishes instead of having full meals, in order to sample the cuisine, but the primi and secondi are also worthy. The excellent Tartufo is their best dessert. Reservations recommended; otherwise, you may have a long wait.

edit John's Pizzeria, 278 Bleecker St (at Bleecker and Jones), ☎ +1-212-243-1680 ‎, [18] . A classic New York pizza place - a gritty joint with brick oven, thin crust pizza. The lines are often long but the service is fast. Whole pies only, no slices. Cash and travelers checks only. edit Joe's Pizza, 7 Carmine St (at Sixth and Bleecker), ☎ +1-212-366-1182, [19] . A very popular corner pizza joint that serves huge, thin crust slices fresh out of the oven. This is classic New York fast food - service is quick but the place is tiny, so you'll want to take your slice outside to eat. edit Drink[ edit ][ add listing ] Three Sheets Saloon (formerly The Town Tavern), 134 W 3rd St (off Sixth Ave), ☎ +1-212-777-1733, [20] .

edit Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher St, ☎ +1-212-488-2705, [21] . A veritable icon of the worldwide gay community, not just New York's. edit Manhattan is one of the five Boroughs of New York; how were Harlem, Greenwich Village, the East Village, and other neighborhoods established? - Quora Quora Manhattan is one of the five Boroughs of New York; how were Harlem, Greenwich Village, the East Village, and other neighborhoods established? Italics because I also wonder whether neighborhood is considered the correct term for such large areas. David S. Rose , lives in New York City I remember hearing much of the history of the different neighborhoods during an audio tour on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, and recommend you spring for that option if you're visiting that building one day, as it's interesting to learn about while enjoying a bird's eye view of it all. But as for how the New York neighborhoods were individually established, it varies. Some were purchases of areas, such as with Greenwich Village and Chelsea.

The owner just chose a name, Greenwich originating from the name of a Long Island town labeled with the Dutch word for "Pine District", and Chelsea being from a British veteran's hospital. Some are based on how the area was used, such as the Garment District. Some are cultural, based on concentrations of immigrants. Certainly Chinatown and Little Italy are good examples. Harlem is definitely named after the Dutch city "Haarlem", reportedly by a Dutch governor, Peter Stuyvesant (probably related to Stuyvesant Town's moniker) in 1658. Here's a map of Manhattan (then Dutch "New Amsterdam") from 1660 that mentions "the settlements of Haarlem": On a side note, two fun things about this map... the wall down the middle that Wall Street was named after. It originally traced the inside of that wall. And two... there's mention of a charming little picnic amongst the trees. O Manhattan, how you've lost your innocence! Some neighborhoods are just designated by geography, like the Upper East Side, or "SOuth of HOuston". People feel smug when they explain what Tribeca stands for, but I'm going to take the high road.

Let's just say the "Triangle Below Canal Block Association", formed by the residents of the local Lispenard Street, had something to do with it. Of interesting note is that the neighborhoods are not officially designated, according to the official NYC government website: But generally speaking, the neighborhoods were each named, at some point in history, by land owners, local officials, or simply the locals, and the names stuck. Sources: Greenwich Village | New York City Neighborhoods Greenwich Village Greenwich Village Greenwich Village, often simply referred to as "the Village", is a mainly residential neighborhood on the Lower West Side of New York City's borough of Manhattan. A majority of the district houses a plethora of upper middle class families. In the late 19th to mid 20th centuries, the neighborhood was known as being the "Bohemian capital" and the East Coast birthplace of the Beat movement. What supplied the original attractive persona of the neighborhood ultimately led to its gentrification and commercialization. Greenwich Village is bounded by Broadway on the east, the Hudson River on the west, Houston Street on the south, and 14th Street on the north.

The neighborhoods surrounding it are the East Village to the east, SoHo and Hudson Square to the south, and Chelsea to the north. The East Village neighborhood located within Greenwich Village was originally considered to be a part of the Lower East Side only and was never officially associated with Greenwich Village until later on. The West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village is located west of 7th Avenue, though many realtors assert that the official dividing line is farther east at 6th Avenue. Greenwich Village is located in New York's 8th congressional district, New York's 25th State Senate district, New York's 66th State Assembly district, and New York City Council's 3rd district. Today, the neighborhood boasts some of the most unique shops and watering holes on the planet. Besides being a famous New York City neighborhood, Greenwich Village is a famous neighborhood which is known worldwide. Those residing in Greenwich Village are a part of a neighborhood that is often defined as being New York City's number one most interesting neighborhood. Greenwich Village is readily enjoyed by thousands of its residents as well as outside visitors on a daily basis.

Manhattan Management Group - About Us • MMG Top Real Estate Agents • Management Team • Careers at MMG MMG TOTAL SERVICE at MMG we believe the costumer service should come first and therefore you can have a direct line to anyone in our company 24/7 Repurpose Stalled Building Sites, Borough President Says - Greenwich Village & SoHo - DNAinfo New York Greenwich Village & Soho Repurpose Stalled Building Sites, Borough President Says By Andrea Swalec |&nbspSeptember 26, 2011 3:59pm View Full Caption DNAinfo/Andrea Swalec HUDSON SQUARE — Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is calling for owners of stalled construction sites to allow the spaces to be put to creative temporary uses. Manhattan has 129 stalled construction sites, according to a report Stringer's office released Monday during a press conference at an interim art space in Hudson Square. More than half of these locations have fencing that is in disrepair or has been vandalized, and nearly 40 percent have problems with litter. Public-private partnerships could transform stalled sites into locations for public art, performances, food vendors, recreation or private parties, Stringer said.

"By releasing this report, we are giving a roadmap of how we can turn these sites into something vibrant for New York City residents," Stringer said. He called for legislation that would let the city partner with developers to create temporary public spaces on private property, potentially creating incentives for developers. The borough president will present the report to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office, Stringer said. Sam Miller, president of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council , said property owners would benefit from putting their stalled sites to public use. "One of the pieces of this puzzle is looking at legislation that will create a permit process that would protect the financial interests of people who have a financial stake in the property and also create new opportunities for revenue on a temporary basis," he said. According to Stringer's report, 12 stalled construction sites are located in Community District 2, which covers Greenwich Village, the West Village, Hudson Square and the Meatpacking District. Stringer spoke at LentSpace , the outdoor area at the northeast corner of Varick and Canal streets that is currently being used for art e xhibitions and to incubate trees that will later be planted in Hudson Square, according to LMCC's website.

The property is a long-term development site, a spokesman for its owner, Trinity Real Estate , said Monday. Trinity plans for the space to later become home to a public elementary school and another development project that is not yet planned, the spokesman added. Greenwich Village's Local News, Sports, Weather, Movies, Classifieds, Yellow Pages, Real Estate - GreenwichVillage.com Greenwich Village Village Alliance Village Alliance: Greenwich Village Historic DistrictThe Village Alliance of Greenwich Village, NY is a Business Improvement District that new encompasses forty blocks of this part of Manhattan. The Alliance also is over the Historical District in The Village, an area that residents work hard to preserve out of love and respect for the history of their beloved Village.The Alliance has many d ... Read More Greenwich Village New York University NYUs Grey Art GalleryThe Grey Art Gallery is New York University’s fine-arts museum, located on historic Washington Square Park in New York City’s Greenwich Village. It offers the NYU community and the general public a dynamic roster of engaging and thought-provoking exhibitions, all of them enriched by public programs. With its emphasis on experimentation and interpretation, and its foc ...

Read More About Greenwich Village Greenwich Village InformationWhether you’re interested in moving to Greenwich Village, NY or just in visiting this interesting piece of American culture, some Greenwich Village information can point you in the right direction on your trip.The Village, as residents and former resident affectionately call it, is home to many upper-middle-class families right now, but it still retains lingeri ... Read More History of Greenwich Village Greenwich Village, NY History & FactsGreenwich Village history starts very far back in American history. The Village was started as a small settlement as far back as 1713, when common council records referred to it as Grin’wich. Several times in the mid to late 1800’s, wealthy residents of New York City fled plagues that were overtaking the crowded atmosphere. Many of them came to Gr ... Read More Greenwich Village Live In The Village Greenwich Village Community, Jobs & SchoolsGreenwich Village was once the domain of starving artists, but that is true no longer. Now, many individuals who hold power jobs in the city choose to live in this beautiful, exciting borough on the south side of Manhattan. The Village provide excellent education, a beautiful community, and, of course, hundreds of job opportunities throughout Ne ... Read More

Question: In which New York borough is Greenwich Village?
Answer: Manhattan